'doughnut burgers' on Serious Eats

What should you expect to find on the menu of a carnival-themed restaurant? Well, a burger served on doughnuts for buns. We paid a visit to Straw, in San Francisco, to see if this combination had any hope of working. More

Many of you aren't into doughnut burgers, but on today's episode of The Rachael Ray Show, actor Jerry O'Connell defended the combination of beef, cheese, bacon, and glazed doughnuts. "If my client is charged with being delicious, then yes—he's... More

Trying to figure out what to order at this burger joint is as difficult as deciphering what the cryptic letters PYT stand for. While there's no real wrong choice, the plain cheeseburger they serve up is nothing short of a revelation. More

[Image: Nicholas Chen] From Nicholas Chen, aka the guy who brought us the chocolate and glazed doughnut burgers, comes the Bear Doughnut Burger made with a bear teddy bear head-shaped doughnut from Mister Donut in Taiwan. ...Of course, it's... More

[Photographs: Robyn Lee] I know you guys aren't that into doughnut burgers, but as we've never really reviewed one (we've just mentioned them a bunch of times) I took the opportunity to try last night's special burger at Rub... More

[Photograph: Nicholas Chen] Here are the results to last week's poll: Have You Ever Eaten a Doughnut Burger? Yes; I'd eat it again. 9% Yes, but I'd never eat it again. 2% Yes; I didn't strongly like or dislike it.... More

For a slight twist on the regular doughnut burger, Nicholas Chen of My Inner Fatty made a batch with two kinds of doughnuts: double chocolate and honey glazed (bought from Tim Horton's). The double chocolate doughnut bun won points for being less sweet than the other doughnuts he tried: "Since the double chocolate donut uses a non-glazed cake base, it was just slightly bitter, and managed to hit the perfect spot in terms of sugar." More

[Photograph: Full Manual Control] We've seen many a doughnut burger photo, but this one by Full Manual Control caught my eye because there's a large bunch of bananas in the background. Burger? Banana? How will you choose? This may... More

[Photograph: Food Network Humor] At The Big E fair starting this weekend in Massachusetts, one of the many foodstuffs you'll be able to eat is the Craz-E Burger, a bacon cheeseburger with grilled glazed doughnuts-for-buns. The burger will be available... More

Photograph from This Is Why You're Fat The Hurler Burger, invented by Bob Phillips of Cape Cod, is an appropriate name for this burger made of a jelly doughnut stuffed with a canned cheese-topped patty. "I could finish this,"... More

foodnetwork.com On a recent episode of NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, butter goddess Paula Deen gives some backstory to her Lady's Brunch Burger that features doughnuts-for-buns, bacon, and a fried egg. Why doughnuts? Those donuts were there, and the hamburger... More

Honestly, I’ve seen the doughnut burger thing a lot, but this video is so well shot and edited that it brought a greasy tear to even these jaded eyes. In this short, the doughnut burger is transformed from curious... More

Editor's note: AHT reader Chris Zelenak channeled his inner Paula Deen by making his own glazed doughnut bacon egg cheeseburgers. Here's his description and recipe. Photographs by Matthew Rogers My boss had been talking for weeks about trying the Badaboomz... More

Artist's rendition, based on another cheeseburger doughnut. Donna's Donuts in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is offering a cheeseburger doughnut. There's no burger or cheese involved; it just looks like a cheeseburger: ...A chocolate honey-dipped (the "burger") is put inside the shell... More

Photograph by ccaviness on Flickr Not that you haven't seen these before, in some form or another, but this photo made the rounds recently and some people wanna see it on AHT. It's an array of Krispy Kreme doughnut... More

Earlier this year, I wrote here on AHT about the origins of the Krispy Kreme donut burger. I noted that this creation—one that uses a donut as a burger bun—first seemed to gain much attention as the Luther Burger in... More

As is common wisdom, one thing the Catholic church excels at is instilling guilt in those raised in the faith. However lapsed I may be these days, that guilt remains. So, while I may not attend mass as often... More

Photo essay from Neon Epiphany. In a stunning turn of events that may shake the very foundations of burgerological anthropology, A Hamburger Today has been presented with credible new evidence that the first burger to use a Krispy Kreme... More